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Jake Arrieta celebrates no-hitter in style

On Sunday night, Arrieta no-hit the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium.

While this might fold into other stories – the no-hitter was the sixth in the big leagues since June 9, the second against the $300 million Dodgers in nine days, the first for a snake-bitten Chicago Cubs in seven years – there is first Arrieta, the 29-year-old right-hander kicked into a trade two years ago who became an ace.

He won his 17th game Sunday night, by a score of 2-0. He won it the way he wins anymore, with hard, precise fastballs, and with what some consider the best slider in the game, a darting curveball and with a sinker that runs low and hard and in the opposite direction of the slider. He'd taken four no-hitters into the seventh inning or later in the past two years, and lost the no-hitter in each. He won this one, finally, with a slider against Chase Utley, that Utley swung over, his 116th pitch for his 12th strikeout, and a fist pump, no hits allowed.
Tim Brown